In order to allay dangerous rumors which are being spread, the Assistant District Commissioner of Haifa today published a notice warning that all those guilty of spreading false rumors will be fined fifty pounds.
Forty Jewish prisoners confined in the Jaffa jail were attacked by one hundred and twenty Arab criminals, during the Arab atacks in Palestine, it was disclosed today. Outnumbered three to one, the Jews were saved from their assailants by removal to another section of the prison.
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